A LONDON SYMPHONY.
Sir,-Those who read "Philomathe’s" criticism of Andersen Tyrer’s notes on Vaughan Williams’s "London Symphony" may be interested in this comment by Ralph Hill in the BBC Radio Times (January 30, 1942): "Vaughan Williams does not intend his symphony to be descriptive. He has said that it is intended to be self-expressive, and must stand or fall as ‘absolute’ music. The life of London possibly including its various sights and sounds, was the poetic source of his musical inspiration and there-
fore he considers that it would be no help to the Ifstener to describe this source in detail. We are supposed to consider the suggestions of such things as the ‘Westminster Chimes’ or the ‘Lavender Cry’ as accidents ‘not essentials of the music’." Mr. Tyrer states that the British Musical Society has approved the notes. This is interesting as a commentary on the society’s judgment, but is not a reason for perpetuating them.
NEW ZEALANDER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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159A LONDON SYMPHONY. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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